2025 rank (boys)
#8,243
Babies named in 2025
9
Peak popularity
2023
2025 frequency
1 in 189,786 boys
Usually for
Boys
Trend
Declining since 2020
Declining since 2020, #8,243 for boys today.
Popularity of Elay since 2007
Babies named Elay per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 2014, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Elay's real moment was 2023.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Boys |
|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 |
| 2010s | 28 |
| 2020s | 35 |
“Elay” around the world
Where Elay lands in the latest official birth statistics abroad, matched to the U.S. spelling.
France
5
babies in 2024
Sources: INSEE (France).
